Bears Waive Tank Johnson
After an Incident in Arizona

By

Carl Bialik and

Jason Fry

Updated June 26, 2007 11:19 a.m. ET

Compared with Tank Johnson's previous missteps, driving 40 in a 25 zone while allegedly "being impaired to the slightest degree" (to quote the Gilbert, Ariz., police) isn't much. But it was more than enough for the Chicago Bears, who waived the defensive tackle yesterday, three days after his arrest in Arizona. And with that, Mr. Johnson's confounding, exasperating Bears career is over.

In the Chicago Sun-Times, Jay Mariotti writes that the Bears "wasted two years trying to turn the problematic pinhead known...